Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ships communications officer.